Saturday, May 3, 2014

Thoughts on an event 15 years ago

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Today marks the 15th anniversary of the tornado outbreak that began on the afternoon of 03 May 1999.  That day, I was "head down"...
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Monday, April 28, 2014

Is storm chasing inherently an immoral behavior?

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Since the deaths of storm chasers during the El Reno tornado of 31 May 2013, there's been a growing concern expressed on social media ab...
Sunday, April 20, 2014

Thoughts on Easter

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Today, Easter Sunday, the social media are full of posts proclaiming the resurrection of christ jesus.  This outpouring of rapturous excitem...
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Friday, April 4, 2014

Can We Prevent the Coming Tornado Disaster?

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Recently, a photo taken from a AA baseball game shows a storm that is pretty close to the field and the players are still out on the grass i...
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Thursday, March 27, 2014

"Hyping" the forecast?

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I've been hearing the word "hype" bandied about in the context of weather forecasts recently - This begs the question of the m...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Tribute to Liz Quoetone

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Today, on the 89th anniversary of the deadliest tornado in US history, a friend and colleague - Liz Quoetone - succumbed to cancer.  Her ...
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Friday, February 21, 2014

Building codes - brutally violated!

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Today, I learned that an investigation of building construction practices in schools hit by the 20 May 2013 tornado in Moore, OK showed the...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Some more thoughts about gun violence in the USA

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Friday, January 31, 2014

What information does a weather forecast contain?

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A colleague of mine said something years ago that struck me as insightful:  every model forecast ever issued was wrong!  Wrong in some way o...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Forecast frustrations

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Yesterday's events in the southeastern US have revealed, yet another time, how frustrating it can be to be a forecaster.  Forecasting th...
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Sunday, January 26, 2014

The indifferent stars - More musings about the meaning of life

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A friend just posted on Facebook about how stars had to die for us to exist at all.  This stimulated a question in me:  should we worship s...
Friday, January 24, 2014

The Richard Sherman Brouhaha

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If you follow NFL football at all, by now you surely know about the interview with Richard Sherman, Seahawks cornerback, after the game .  I...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

A tragedy or a harbinger?

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As the people of Charleston, WV grapple with the challenge of contaminated water from a chemical spill into the public water supply, I proba...
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Saturday, December 28, 2013

A Sucker Born Every Minute ...

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In these times, it seems superfluous to present more evidence regarding the old adage (attributed to P.T. Barnum) that there's a sucker ...
Friday, December 27, 2013

The Morale of Federal Employees

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 A blog about the causes for low morale among Federal employees just came out from NPR.  I disagree strongly with the final take-away messa...
Monday, December 16, 2013

Whither goest operationally-relevant severe storms research?

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As part of my post-NOAA employment, I've been funded (part time) for several years by grants from the National Science Foundation.  Befo...
Friday, December 13, 2013

A waste of state resources

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Over and over, of late, we hear about state legislators in diverse states around the US passing laws to allow school-sanctioned prayers (and...
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